The difference between buzzer and bell
is that "buzzer" is one who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes and "bell" is a percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
buzzer
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bell
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Noun
- One who, or that which, buzzes; an insect that buzzes.
- A device that makes a buzzing sound.
- (obsolete) A gossip.
Exemple
- And wants not buzzers to infect his ear / With pestilent speeches of his father’s death.
- … it left, however, a bee at his ear and an itch to transfer the buzzer’s attentions and tease his darling; for she had betrayed herself as right good game.
- If you think you know the answer to the question, hit the buzzer as fast as you can.
- I flipped my wallet open on her desk and let her look at the buzzer pinned to the flap.
- Her brother is in secret come from France,Feeds on this wonder, keeps himself in cloudsAnd wants not buzzers to infect his earWith pestilent speeches of his father’s death.
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Noun
- A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (computing) A device control code that produces a beep (or rings a small electromechanical bell on older teleprinters etc.).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- An instrument situated on a bicycle’s handlebar, used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
Synonyms
- (in heraldry): campane
- (rare): tintinnabule
Hyponyms
- bicycle bell
- bridle-bell
- campane
- campana
- campanel, campanella
- cascabel
- church bell
- codon
- corrigiunculum, corrigiuncula
- crotal
- curfew, curfew-bell
- doorbell
- dinner-bell
- dupla
- handbell
- jingle bell
- nola
- peal
- petasius
- signum, signum bell
- squilla
- tintinnabulum
- tocsin
- vesper, vesper-bell
Meronyms
- (internally suspended tool for striking): clapper, tongue
- (flaring open end): mouth
Holonyms
- (structure housing bells): bell tower, campanile
- (sets of bells): carillon, peal
Coordinate terms
- alarm
- buzz
- buzzer
- chime
- curfew
- dinger
- ding-dong
- gong
- peal
- ringer
- siren
- tocsin
- toll
Examples
- HEAR the sledges with the bells —
- Silver bells!
- What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
- Referee Steve Smoger was an almost invisible presence in the ring as both men went at it, although he did have a word with Froch when he landed with a shot after the bell at the end of the eighth.
- I’ll give you a bell later.
- In a cowslip’s bell I lie.
Verb
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
Examples
- Who will bell the cat?
- to bell a tube
- Hops bell.
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